Anatine
Timeline of the 18th Century

 
Abbreviations:
b.  born
d.  died
fl.  flourished
r.  ruled/reigned
c.  circa (approximately)
St.  Saint
BC  before Christ
AD  Anno Domini ('in the year of our Lord' - after the birth of Christ)
UK   United Kingdom
EEC   European Economic Community
NATO   North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
UN   United Nations
USA/US   United States of America
USSR   Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

1800

Stamford Raffles (1781 - 1826)

Highland clearances in Scotland (c.1780 - 1860)

Gordon Riots (1778)








American Declaration of Independence (1776)



US War of Independence (1775 - 1781)

Lisbon destroyed by earthquake (1775)

Pope Pius VI (r.1775 - 1800)

Louis XVI, King of France (r.1774 - 1792)

Boston Tea-Party (1773)

London Stock Exchange founded (1773)






Robert Owen (1771 - 1858)










Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)

1st Duke of Wellington (1769 - 1852)

Pope Clement XIV (r.1769 - 1775)






Christie's founded (1766)









Catherine II 'the Great', Tsarina of Russia (r.1762 - 1796)

Peter III, Tsar of Russia (r.1762)

George III (r.1760 - 1820)

Admiral Horatio Nelson (1758 - 1805)

Pope Clement XIII (r.1758 - 1769)








Black Hole of Calcutta (1756)

Seven Years War (1756 - 1763)

Marie Antoinette (1755 - 1793)


Capital punishment in Russia replaced by exile to Siberia (1753)







Turnpike Acts in UK (1751 - 1772)












Battle of Culloden (1746)

2nd Jacobite Rebellion (1745)














Elizabeth, Tsarina of Russia (r.1741 - 1762)

Battle of Cartagena (1741)

War of Austrian Succession (1740 - 1748)

Ivan VI, Tsar of Russia (r.1740 - 1741)

Pope Benedict XIV (r.1740 - 1758)

Wesley founds Methodist Church (1739)

George Washington (1732 - 1799)





Captain James Cook (1731 - 1779)



Anna Ivanova, Tsarina of Russia (r.1730 - 1740)

Pope Clement XII (r.1730 - 1740)



Peter II, Tsar of Russia (r.1727 - 1730)

George II (r.1727 - 1760)

Clive of India (1725 - 1774)

Catherine I, Tsarina of Russia (r.1725 - 1727)

Ahmad Shah Durrani (1724 - 1773)

Pope Benedict XIII (r.1724 - 1730)










Pope Innocent XIII (r.1721 - 1724)

South Sea Bubble (1720)

Charles Edward Stuart 'the Young Pretender' or 'Bonnie Prince Charlie' (1720 - 1788)





Louis XV, King of France (r.1715 - 1774)

1st Jacobite Rebellion (1715)

George I (r.1714 - 1727)

Treaty of Utrecht (1713)









South Sea Company founded (1711)










Union of Scotland (1707)

Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)

Earthquake in Tokyo (1703)

1st Eddystone lighthouse destroyed by storm (1703)

St. Petersburg founded (1703)

Anne (r.1702 - 1714)

War of Spanish Succession (1701 - 1714)
 

Oxygen discovered (1774)

Steam engine invented (1769)

Encyclopedia Britannica published (1768)





Hydrogen discovered (1766)








1st successful appendectomy performed (1763)

Veterinary School established in Lyon (1762)

Cambridge University Botanic Garden founded (1761)



Kew Gardens founded (1759)


















Carbon dioxide discovered (1755)

1st English dictionary published (1755)

Liverpool Town Hall built (1754)

British Museum founded (1753)

British Library founded (1753)














Sugar extracted from beet in Prussia (1747)




















Celsius invents thermometer (1742)




























Flying shuttle invented (1733)








Sextant invented (1731)

Tull's The New Horse-Hoeing Husbandry published (1731)



Chambers' Cyclopedia published (1728)



























Cork Harbour Club founded (1720)




Freemasons' Grand Lodge established in London (1717)




















St. Paul's Cathedral in London completed (1711)


Coke-fired blast furnace developed (1709)



















Yale University founded (1701)